# Derwent Lees - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-28T22:41:10.730Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 43
- Lots with prices: 30
- First auction date: 2001-11-21
- Latest auction date: 2025-10-19
- Median realised price: $1,375
- Price range: $100 to $60,000

## Market Takeaway
Derwent Lees has 43 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $1,375. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($1,375\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($700 to $7,500\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 36.7% (11 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 50% (15 sales)
- $10,000\+: 13.3% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 2
- Previous 12 months sales: 6
- Recent 12 months median: $380
- Previous 12 months median: $3,780
- Median shift: 0%
- Latest sale date: 2025-10-19
- Days since latest sale: 191
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- Christie's: 15 lots
- Sotheby's: 6 lots
- Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales: 4 lots
- Bonhams: 3 lots
- Gibson's: 2 lots
- Bay East Auctions: 1 lots
- Chorley's: 1 lots
- Colville Auctions: 1 lots
- Gorringes: 1 lots
- John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-10-19 | DERWENT LEES \(1884\-1931\), Lyndra & Charlie, 1915 | Gibson's | A$19,000
2. 2025-10-07 | Derwent Lees \(Australian, 1884\-1931\) | Sworders | £380
3. 2025-01-15 | DERWENT LEES \(AUSTRALIAN/BRITISH 1884–1931\) | Lyon & Turnbull | £1,100
4. 2024-10-17 | DERWENT LEES \(1884\-1931\). Portrait of Elizabeth Lipczinski with Her Dog, Fa | Christie's | £3,780
5. 2024-07-11 | DERWENT LEES \(AUSTRALIAN 1884\-1931\), MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
6. 2024-07-11 | DERWENT LEES \(AUSTRALIAN 1884\-1931, ALDBOURNE, WILTSHIRE | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | N/A
7. 2024-07-11 | DERWENT LEES \(AUSTRALIAN 1884\-1931\), COLLIOURE | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £9,500
8. 2024-07-11 | DERWENT LEES \(AUSTRALIAN 1884\-1931\), A TREE AMONGST DUNES | Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales | £7,500
9. 2024-04-21 | DERWENT LEES \(1885\-1931\), Portrait of the Artist’s Wife | Gibson's | A$550
10. 2023-09-26 | DERWENT LEES \(Australia/Britain 1884\-1931\), 'Portrait Study \- Polly Rumney', pencil sketch, signed lower right, 32.5 x 24.5 cm, fram. | Raffan Kelaher & Thomas | A$950
11. 2023-03-22 | Derwent Lees \(British, 1885\-1931\) Trees in Provence | Bonhams | £9,000
12. 2022-03-24 | DERWENT LEES \(TASMANIA 1884\-1931 LONDON\) The Coast at Cavtat, Croatia penc | Christie's | £6,930
13. 2022-03-24 | DERWENT LEES \(TASMANIA 1884\-1931 LONDON\) La Ciotat, Provence ink and water | Christie's | £8,190
14. 2022-03-08 | Derwent Lees \(Australian, 1885\-1931\), Cassis, ink and watercolour, 24 x 33cm | Gorringes | £440
15. 2021-12-02 | Derwent Lees \(1885\-1931\) Two Women | Shapiro Auctioneers | N/A
16. 2021-10-21 | DERWENT LEES \(1884\-1931\) \- Sandhills | Christie's | £60,000
17. 2020-05-10 | Derwent Lees, Australian Floral Still Life | Lugosi Auctioneers & Valuers | A$100
18. 2019-10-24 | Derwent Lees \(1884\-1931\) \- Isle Etang de Belle 1911 signed, dated and titled middle bottom | Lawsons | A$3,500
19. 2018-04-25 | Derwent Lees \(1885\-1931\) Australian. A Sketch of Naked Figures by a Lake, Ink and Wash, Signed and Dated '09, 7.75" x 12". | John Nicholson's Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers | £480
20. 2018-03-28 | DERWENT LEES \(1885\-1931\) | Olympia Auctions | N/A
21. 2018-03-05 | Derwent Lees \(1885 \- 1931\) Australia, Britain, Europe \- \(Portrait Woman\) | Colville Auctions | N/A
22. 2017-04-05 | DERWENT LEES \| Lyndra at Aldbourne | Sotheby's | N/A
23. 2016-11-22 | Derwent Lees \(British 1885\-1931\)/Lyndra in the Woods/oil on panel, 39.25cm x 29.25cm/Provenance: M V B Hill /Esq. and thence by descent/Exhibited: The Fine Art Society, Feb 1968, no. 3422/see illustration | Chorley's | £6,000
24. 2013-05-29 | Derwent Lees \(British, 1885\-1931\) | Bonhams | £350

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